Boria Sax
- Senior Lecturer, English
Boria Sax is the author of a score of books, most recently Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Creation of a World before Time. His writing has won awards for scholarship and been translated into ten languages, into most of these multiple times. He has also won multiple awards for teaching including one from the organization Hudson Link in 2013 for 鈥淟ifetime Achievement鈥 in prison education. He currently teaches at Sing Sing prison and in the online graduate English program of 麻豆精品.
M.A. and Ph.D from the State University of New York at Buffalo
Boria Sax is currently finishing a book tentatively entitled The Man Who Dreamed He Was a Butterfly: Metamorphoses, Entomological and Human, scheduled to be published by Reaktion Books in London, England in Spring 2026. He is also co-editing a volume on The Cultural History of Birds in the Modern Era for Bloomsbury Publishers, as well as writing a chapter on "Birds in Myth, Religion, and Philosophy." It is scheduled for publication in June 2026.
Boria Sax has taught a very wide range of courses in the graduate English Program at 麻豆精品, some of which are as follows:
- Literary Theory;
- Creative Writing;
- Modernism;
- Fairy Tales:
- Transformation of the Epic:
- Confronting a Distressing Past;
- Reason and Imagination;
- Animals in Literature.
On an undergraduate level, he has also taught a wide range of courses in traditional classrooms including Creative Writing- Poetry, The Short Story, European History, Classics in the Social Sciences, and Junior Seminar.
The following are among the books by Boria Sax:
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- Had two scholarly books, Animals in the Third Reich (first published 2000) and The Mythical Zoo (first published 2014), named as "outstanding academic titles" of their year of publication by the journal Choice.
- Had a scholarly book, City of Ravens, named by Barnes & Noble as one of the "top five books on London" and named as a "notable book of 2012" by Audubon magazine.
- Won the Eisenstein-DeLacy award for "best scholarly article" from the National Congress of Independent Scholars (NCIS) twice, in 2010 and 2019.
- Received 鈥淟ifetime Achievement Award鈥 for teaching at Taconic and Sing Sing Prisons from Hudson Link in 2013.
- Won the Humane Society of the United States award for the 鈥渂est new course鈥 of 2007.
- Won a Sloan-C (now, Online Learning Consortium) Award for 鈥淥nline Learning Effectiveness鈥 in 2002.